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PINS FOR WINGS 

by 

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BOOKS BY 
EMANUEL 
MORGAN 

Spectra (with Anne 
Knish) The Beloved Stran- 
ger (with Witter Bynner) 







Of this edition 2,000 copies printed in October, 1920. 
Also fifty copies on hand-made paper. 



TO WILLIAM MARION REEDY 

1862 — 1920 

A mirror breathed upon by Death 
but undimmed 



PINS FOR WINGS 

BY EMANTUEL MORGAN. 
^ THE SUNWISE TURN ^ 





Copyright 1910 
by the Sunwise Turn 



Caricatures by IVAN OPFFER 

and 

WILLIAM SAPHIER 







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TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Title Page — Emanuel Morgan Pinning 

Copyright Page — Saphier by Opffer (after which Opffer 
dared not sit for Saphier) 

Page 2 — Marsden Hartley (slightly bored) 

Page 8 — Edgar Lee Masters 

Page 1 1 — Maxwell Bodenheim 

Page IX — Emanuel Carnevali 

Page 14 — John Gould Fletcher 

Page 1 5 — Robert Frost 

Page 1 7 — Siegfried Sassoon 

Page 18 — Alfred Kreymborg (before he toured America) 

Page 19 — Vachel Lindsay 

Page 20 — Spoon River 

Page 21 — Edgar Lee Masters 

Page 22 — Harriet Monroe and her hobby 

Page 24 — Ezra Pound 

Page 25 — Lola Ridge 

Page 26 — Carl Sandburg 

Page 27 — Sandburg Considering the Ingredients 

Page 28— Siegfried Sassoon 

Page 29 — Tagore 

Page 30 — Louis Untermeyer 

Page 31 — William Carlos Williams 

Page 32 — Williams again 



PINS FOR WINGS 

By EMANUEL MORGAN 



LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE 

an iron wheel 

with a navel of gold 

FRANKLIN P. ADAMS 

Greek masks 

in ink 

on comic finger-nails 

A E 

liquid air 
somewhere 

CONRAD AIKEN 

phosphorescent 

plumbing 

ZOE AKINS 

brandied 

lotus 

RICHARD ALDINGTON 
an Attic vase 
full of tea 

MARY ALDIS 
a street-car 
shying 



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WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG 
water-pretzels 

KARLE WILSON BAKER 
a window 
in the wash 

WILTON AGNEW BARRETT 

night-thoughts 

of a dragon-fly 

KATHERINE LEE BATES 

four-and-twenty blackbirds 
half-baked in a pie 

STEPHEN VINCENT BENET 
a pistol 
of crystal 

WILLIAM ROSE BENET 
a river of rockets 
in daylight 

STELLA BENSON 

Cinderella's 

riding-breeches 



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MAXWELL 

BODENHEIM 
a tooth 
toe-dancing 

GORDON 
BOTTOMLEY 

by two nymphs 
out of old England 

WILLIAM 
ASPENWALL 
BRADLEY 
a bearded wheel- 
barrow 

BERTON 

BRALEY 
fonts of type 
in a tambourine 

ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH ROBERT BRIDGES 

nectar a violet 

drunk from a sainted shoe 'neath the Kohinoor 




GELETT BURGESS 
sculptured chewing-gum 
on a trolley 



DANA BURNETT 
a young policeman 
with a flute in his pocket 



AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR ELSA BARKER 
a tortoise-shell comb Jacob's ladder 

as a lyre for a mattress 



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RICHARD BURTON 

a quill 

in a button-hole 

WITTER BYNNER 

God y 

in the sugar-bowl 

EMILE CAMMAERTS 
sticky little hands 
in yours 

BLISS CARMAN 
little hills 
tipping their hats 



EMANUEL CARNEVALI EDWARD CARPENTER 
a fire-escape Calamus 

in travail unbound 

WILLIAM H. CARRUTH JOHN JAY CHAPMAN 
Alpha and Omega oil Jove 

for soul-sprains in a pew 

GILBERT K. CHESTERTON 

a Cardinal 

on a merry-go-round 



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FREDERICK MORTIMER 

CLAPP 
a collector 
of emotional bricks 

PADRAIC COLUM 
the whistle of a kettle 
to the petal of a thistle 



SARAH N. CLEGHORN 
the rosy half 
of an old apple 

GRACE HAZARD 

CONKLING 
a goblet of mist 
for each place 



EDMUND VANCE COOKE ALICE CORBIN 



wit 

zithering in a derby 



a quiver 
full of rulers 



E. E. CUMMINGS 

much ado 

about the alphabet 

GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO 
a passion-flower 
dipped in ammonia 

MARY CAROLYN DAVIES 
a flutter of skirts 
between life and death 



T. A. DALY 
curbstone 
carolling 
to curbstone 

OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN 
she wears her heart 
on your other sleeve 

WILLIAM M. DAVIES 
jewelled buns 



FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS 

sun-bonnets 

for Minerva 



WALTER DE LA MARE 
a door-knob 
in the mist 



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BABETTE DEUTSCH 

the phoenix 

lays a purple bomb 



JOHN DRINKWATER 

dust 

in a mug of ale 



LORD DUNSANY 
the beautiful thump 
of the gods 



MAX EASTMAN 

Aphrodite 

tattooed on a muscle 



T. S. ELIOT 
the wedding cake 
of two tired cultures 



JOHN ERSKINE 

marbles 

in a muff 



DONALD EVANS 
the necktie 
of Lucifer 

ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE 

St. Sebastian 

in gloves 

trimming his arrow-tips 

MAHLON LEONARD FISHER 
fourteen feet 
in a feather-bed 

JOHN GOULD FLETCHER 
two halves of a typewriter 
still moving 

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F. S. FLINT 

the halo 

of a street-lamp 

ROBERT FROST 

paintings by the family 
in birch-bark frames 

NORMAN GALE 
a knickerbockered 
bobolink 

THEODOSIA 

GARRISON 

a peasant 

singing 

in French heels 



KAHLIL GIBRAN 

repartee 

from all three crosses 



WILFRID WILSON GIBSON 

there's heart 

behind the heavy breathing 



ARTURO GIOVANITTI 
a crow-bar 
loosening heaven 



ROBERT GRAVES 
a khaki bib 



WILLIAM GRIFFITH 
a little finger 
in the dusk 



EDGAR GUEST 
communion-bread 
with slices of bologna 



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LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY ARTHUR GUITERMAN 

digging with palm-leaves a banjo 

she buries a trumpet bumps a rose 

in Oxford 

THOMAS HARDY 

HERMANN HAGEDORN a strong man 

the silver lining tripping 

oftheY. M. C.A. on the shadow of a god 



ELIJAH HAY 

lather 

but no beard 



H. D. 

the Winged Victory 
hopping 



OLIVER HERFORD 
bottled kittens 



RALPH HODGSON 

a syrinx 

played by a gentleman 



BRIAN HOOKER 
angles 



A. E. HOUSMAN 
a dead lad 
laughing 



LAURENCE HOUSMAN 

Jack 

out of the box 



HELEN HOYT 

ice-patterns 

melting on the side-walk 



FORD MADOX HEUFFER NELSON LESLIE JENNINGS 
a grey-hound a sack-suit 

loping with pugs of cinnabar 



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PINS FOR WINGS 



ORRICK JOHNS 
the Rubaiyat 
carved on a carrot 



THOMAS S. JONES, JR. 
one holly-berry 
on an altar 



HARRY KEMP 
seven-league boots 
on a linnet 



RUDYARD KIPLING 

Pan 

stoking an empire 



ANNE KNISH 
a gargoyle 
remembering 

ALFRED 

KREYMBORG 
Pierrot 
with the hiccoughs 

D. H. LAWRENCE 

lovers 

eating thistle-pie 

LOUIS LEDOUX 

Hellas 

delivered 

RICHARD LE 
GALLIENNE 
talcum-powder on the 
tail of a wayward 
nightingale 




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WILLIAM ELLERY 

LEONARD 
veils 
on an anvil 

VACHEL LINDSAY 
a street-cry 
in heaven 

HAN I EL LONG 
Harlequin 
one leg woollen 
the other illicit 

AMY LOWELL 
a rhinestone chip 
on a blood-red shoulder 

ALLAN ROSS 

MACDOUGALL . 
a Falstaffian 
Christ-child 

PERCY MACKAYE 

laurel 

on a carpet-sweeper 

EDWIN MARKHAM 
he has learned the art 
of leaning on a hoe 
without soiling his beard 




MAURICE 

MAETERLINCK 
a dreamy fat man 
dancing 
in blue gauze 

DON MARQUIS 

a walnut bureau 

with crickets for handles 



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JOHN MASEFIELD 
fishing for the sunrise 
he catches fish 

WALT MASON 

overalls 

rhyming 

EDGAR LEE MASTERS 
a graphophone 
in the morgUe 

ALICE MEYNELL 

candles 

burning 

for one another 

SCUDDER MIDDLETON 

a liberty-cap 

shaving 

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY 

a hamadryad 

in the tree of knowledge 

RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL 
a heart-line 
running off the hand 
into print 

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HAROLD MONRO 

clay-flecks 

on a thigh 



ANGELA MORGAN 
Jeanne d'Arc 
seizes a trombone 




EMANUEL MORGAN 

a bat 

and a butterfly 

mating 

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY 

an affectionate 

scorpion 



DAVID MORTON 



DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI 

lightning 

as a baton 



HARRIET MONROE 
the Mother Superior 
considers lingerie 



GILBERT MURRAY 
a discus-thrower 
perfumed 



STURGE MOORE 
a proud procession 
of pudding-stone 



JOHN G. NEIHARDT 

muscle-bound 

but Marathon 



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HENRY NEWBOLT 
the Jolly Union 
Roger Jack 

YONE NOGUCHI 

incense 

for breakfast 

ALFRED NOYES 

Robin Hood 

singing 

the Doxology 



ROBERT NICHOLS 

Mars 

a la mode 

GRACE FALLOW NORTON 

swan's-down 

in an eddy 

JOHN MYERS O'HARA 

robes 

of old yeast 



DAVID O NEIL 

jackstraws 

and a hook of silk 



GEORGE O NEIL 

petals 

in a glass of milk 



MOIRAONEILL 
the hands of the harpist 
homespun 
fingers of gauze 

JAMES OPPENHEIM 

vats 

of star-soup 



ROSE O NEILL 
flowers blown 
along a sphynx 

SHAEMAS O'SHEEL 

a dream 

arguing 



JOHN 
OXENHAM 
the adoring 
eye 
of God s dog 



JOSEPHINE 
PRESTON 
PEABODY 

bleeding 

lilies 



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EZRA POUND 
a book-worm 
in tights 

EDWIN FORD PIPER 
a heart-beat 
in a hen-house 

CALE YOUNG RICE 
a coloured post-card 
as Hamlet 



WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY 

a faun 

reciting 

LIZETTE WOOD WORTH REESE 
a singing hinge 
of home 

JESSIE B. RITTENHOUSE 

dew 

purring 



CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON 
a big stick of maple 
caressing a motor 

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EDWIN 

ARLINGTON 

ROBINSON 
from inside the rim of 
his eye-glasses he 
wipes away the tears 
of two counties 
deftly 
with a lilac 

ROBERT ALDEN 

SANBORN 
back-scratchers 
in bloom 

GEORGE 
SANTAYANA 

a withered 
rose-window 



LOLA RIDGE 

grapes 

on a ragged corsage 



GEORGE STERLING 
from a scarlet bowl 
he feeds the smallness of life 
to the largeness of words 



ROBERT HAVEN 

SCHAUFFLER 
hobnail etchings 
in excelsis 



WALLACE STEVENS 
the shine of a match 
in an empty pipe 



JAMES STEPHENS 

meadows 

amazed with men 



I.e. SQUIRES 

a ballet 

of marshmallows 



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CLINTON 

SCOLLARD 
a mouse 
in the piano 

EVELYN SCOTT 
candied colon 

MARJORIE ALLEN 

SEIFFERT 
in a bath-tub filled 
with Pierian springs 
she washes off her 
inhibitions with a 
gurgling elbow 

ROBERT W. 
SERVICE 
the red corpuscle 
courts the white 
with a cornet 

CARL SANDBURG 
a snow-pudding 
of fists 




GERTRUDE STEIN 
wings rotting 
under water 



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EDWARD 
SHANKS 

a teaspoon 

lost in rose-leaves 



ODELL 
SHEPARD 

spring-wind 

up the trouser-leg 



LEONORA 
SPEYER 

a velvet train 
in a brook 



CHARLES 
WHARTON STORK 

stilts 
clasping 

ARTHUR SYMONS 

enchanted 

Roquefort 




SIEGFRIED SASSOON 

Puck 

at an autopsy 



SARA TEASDALE 

one hand throws away a pearl 

rounded by an oyster 

the other clings to a bit of shell 

rounded by the waves 



EDITH M. THOMAS 
stairs whispering 
in a steeple 



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RABINDRANATH TAGORE 

a bearded child by the world-old sea 

making a temple 

of pebbles and a phallus 



EUNICE TIETJENS 
she exclaims 

through a magnifying glass 
into a mirror 



RIDGELY TORRENCE 
a long black cloak 
circling a lake 



CHARLES HANSON TOWNE 

church-bells 

on a bicycle 



HENRY VAN DYKE 
a pulpit 
slowly waltzing 



LEONARD VAN 
NOPPEN 
the great 
i amb 




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LOUIS UNTERMEYER 

Paris 

awarding the apple 

to Vulcan 



GEORGE SYLVESTER 
VIERECK 
a palanquin 
on a dachshund 



CHARLES VILDRAC 

Judgment-day and the 
footstool carved in jade 




ARTHUR WALEY 
woollen gloves 
assorting feathers 



THOMAS WALSH 

top-sails 

of lace 



EDA LOU WALTON 
the wandered wisp 
of a tepee 



WILLIAM WATSON 
a gray-maned lion 
heart-ache and tooth-ache 
but royal 



WILLARD WATTLES 
the alarm-clock 
of Christ 



CAROLYN WELLS 
English sparrows 
in vaudeville 



JOHN HALL WHEELOCK 

a floral display 

in an ice-cream parlor 



MARGARET WIDDEMER 
a darting umbrella 



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WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS 
carbolic acid 
in love 

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FLORENCE W I LK I NSON MARGUERITEWILKI NSON 
Gothic carvings arms 

left in a cloak-room thrown around 

outdoors 

CLEMENT WOOD 
the west wind 
in rebellion 
against a wall 

CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD 

he finds in the desert 

a Rogers group 

of the kingdom of heaven 

GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY 

grape-juice 

in the Holy Grail 

EDITH WYATT 

a cornstalk 

held up with a hairpin 

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS 

a pot of mould 

at the foot of the rainbow 




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